Speaker for the Dead

comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart” (271). In Orson Scott Card’s, Speaker for the Dead, we are met yet again with Ender Wiggin, on a foreign planet, with foreign people, a new foreign alien species, and one he has carried with him for the last 3000 years. The book in it’s entirety is essentially based on the concept of foreignness. Orson Scott Card does a not at all subtle analysis of foreignness, posing the questions: are actions that seem foreign. evil, and against us necessarily wrong? Throughout the novel you are faced with…

Speaker for the Dead, a fascinating novel taking place about 3,000 years after Ender’s Game. Through time and space travel Ender is nearly thirty-five years old, his brother Peter though, has died off years ago and Ender has assumed the title as Speaker for the Dead. His sister Valentine, has grown too, she has married and is having kids but Ender still is traveling the universe in search of people that have died. Ender goes to another world that is inhabited by piggies, the piggies have…

The first example is what happens after Ender defeats the buggers. “So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggen, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always valentine, historian errant, writing down stories of the living while Ender spoke the stories of the dead. And always Ender carried with him the dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time” (Card…

Imagine waking up eight o’clock on a Saturday morning, but instead you were waking up to the sound of your commander's voice telling you to get ready for war. The movie Ender’s Game and the book Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card has its similarities and has its differences. Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the book and movie shows with his wins and his defeats that he can only fight people or buggers that he understands. In each of the paragraphs, you will learn about why the book is…

You may have seen the action-packed movie, but if you want something even better than the movie you really should read the book. Ender's Game was an intriguing story that is very exhilarating. You will read this book cover to cover over and over. In Ender's Game, the earth made contact with aliens and now the aliens took that the wrong way and started to attack earth. So the earth came together and fought against the aliens, but the aliens technology was to advanced and it wasn't even a…

In Ender’s game the computer game foreshadows how Enders character will be in the end of the book. Ender is playing a game and is stuck at a point until he thinks differently about the situation.“And instead of pushing his face into one of the liquids, he kicked one over, then the other, and dodged the Giant’s huge hands as the Giant shouted, ‘Cheater, cheater!’ He jumped at the Giant’s face . . . and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. . . . As the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed into the…

Envision sharing a universe with strange insect-like creatures, called “buggers,” who are trying colonize your home - Earth. Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is about a boy, Ender Wiggin, who gets sent to Battle School - in space! - and soon becomes commander of Dragon Army. Battle School is designed to turn young children into military leaders. At Battle School, groups of students fight mock battles, in null gravity, and are split into different toons. Because of Ender’s brilliance,…

Like a little girl mimicking her mother at the vanity table, the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, resembled its predecessor but paid minimal homage to the beloved novel, despite its fancy dresses woven with exquisite graphics and its faint perfumes of action and intensity. By focusing on the general events at Battle School and Command School, the film left out the specific details of Ender’s training experience. Although the movie included essential scenes from the…

In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, a young boy named Andrew, Ender for short, faces the challenge of adult control. As a soldier in Battle School, Ender is forced to rely on adults’ commands , which is both good and bad. As a result of this, Ender begins to see through the adults’ words to their true intent. This leads Ender to try to make his own choices, which shows him how tough the words and actions of adults’ truly are.Throughout the story, the theme- Never underestimate the…

In the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, the ideas between protagonist and antagonists vary because each type of living being on the planet, Lusitania, is going against each other for the greater good of their own species. The humans are dying off from the descolada, a disease that the pequeninos, an alien species that are structured like large pigs who can walk and talk, need in order to survive and move on to their third life as “fathertrees.” And the humans are trying to tame this descolada…